NEW YORK TIMESDebate Prep? Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Differ on That, Too

Hillary Clinton is determined to get under Donald J. Trump’s skin at Monday’s debate, and is testing attack lines to try to rattle him.

Mr. Trump is largely shunning traditional debate preparations, but has been watching video of Mrs. Clinton’s best and worst debate moments, looking for her vulnerabilities.

The two candidates are taking vastly different approaches to what is expected to be one of the most widely watched presidential debates since Carter vs. Reagan in 1980. And their divergent strategies reveal how the candidates and their campaigns see the race, their strengths and their opponents’ weaknesses.

Mrs. Clinton has a thick dossier on Mr. Trump after months of research and meetings with her debate team, including analysis and assumptions about his psychological makeup that Clinton advisers described as critical to understanding how to knock Mr. Trump off balance. Mrs. Clinton has concluded that catching Mr. Trump in a lie during the debate is not enough to beat him: She needs the huge television audience to see him as temperamentally unfit for the presidency, and that she has the power to unhinge him.

Mr. Trump, in turn, is approaching the debate like a Big Man on Campus who thinks his last-minute term paper will be dazzling simply because he wrote it.

And by that I mean Kellyanne, Roger et al. They're doing debate prep. Not Trump. They'll attempt to condense it down to a few directions using minimum words, since Donald's attention span is so short.

I'm sure Hillary hired some expert psychologists to analyze Trump and come up with strategy. I sure hope they took Michael Moore and Bill Maher up on their offers for debate prep. Both in analysis and performing as surrogate Trumps, both would be awesome.

I'm going to be at my parents' house that night (Dad - conservative Independent voting for Hillary, Mom lifelong Republican who has *said* she's not voting for Trump, but that was before the Convention) so not sure if I'll catch the debate live or not. I may have to just read commentary and catch clips after the fact.

I really don't think this is a deal breaker. I think no matter how badly Trump performs or how good Hillary is, Trump and Party will declare themselves the winner and her the loser, some of the media will report it that way and his Deplorables will crow and beat that horse to a pulp, NO MATTER THE REALITY. So she could very obviously win and still be declared the loser. We've seen it before.

I just hope enough of the American people watch and can make up their own minds based on the reality before them.

“The grieving in their mind is the animus, the anger, they hate White people because White people are successful and they’re not. Yes it is, it is a welfare state. We have trillions of dollars on welfare and we’ve put people in bondage so they can’t be all they’re capable of being,”

Friedrich Trump, Donald's grandfather was deported from his European home - that is how we got Drumpf here.

The behavior is in the genes, it appears. Friedrich tried to return to his European home (known as Kallstadt, Bavaria) but they would have none of it so he had to return to the US to live out his life.

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